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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.”

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion. But funding a “big digital” strategy during the figuring out process can take more patience than investors have.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static. ” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Tronc vs. the Right Way for Publishers to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business

But it’s really reporting that sets a publication apart, even in seemingly trivial areas like fashion and entertainment. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static. Nobody ever says, “Gee, I just consumed some really enlightening content and it really change the way I think about things.”

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